Responsibilities
As a Domain Architect, your mission is to ensure the Asset domain's IT landscape is coherent, future-proof, and aligned with the internal strategic goals.
Architectural Translation & Design: * Form a strategic "tandem" with Business Architecture to translate organizational capabilities into actionable IT roadmaps.
Convert complex business processes into detailed IT Blueprints that guide development and implementation teams.
Standards & Governance
Define and enforce domain-specific principles while ensuring alignment with Group and Local principles, standards and reference architectures.
Present, justify, and defend architectural designs before the Architectural Review Board (ARB).
Formalize logic through Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure long-term maintainability.
Guard against architectural drift and unmanaged technical debt.
Monitor SLA/OLA performance and report domain-level risks
Portfolio Management
Maintain a single source of truth for the Asset IT application and platform portfolio within the Enterprise Architecture Repository.
Conduct regular portfolio assessments (e.g. Gartner TIME, 6R), factoring in operational criticality. This in close collaboration with Business and IT stakeholders (IT Application Managers).
Identify opportunities for application/platform reuse to reduce technical debt and operational costs.
Work with solution architects within the Assets IT Domain to ensure solutions are viable across build, run, evolve, and retire phases, and ensure alignment with domain strategy and quality standards
Strategic Advisory
Conduct trade-off analyses (e.g. cost, risk, complexity, time to value) to facilitate executive decision-making.
Perform peer reviews of Solution Architecture deliverables for Asset Domain consistency.
Develop and maintain domain roadmaps anticipating regulatory, technological, and energy‑system evolution.
Advise senior stakeholders on long term architectural implications of asset strategy decisions.
Data, Integration & Information Architecture
Work with Data Architects and Solution Architects to govern asset and operational data models, integration patterns, and data ownership.
Work with Enterprise Architects and Platform Architects to ensure interoperability between enterprise systems, control systems, and analytics platforms.
Coordinate with Data Architecture to ensure semantic consistency and data quality.
Security, Resilience & Compliance
Work with security and compliance teams to ensure that security, availability, and resilience requirements are embedded into Asset Domain architectures and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, safety, and cyber obligations.
Define architectural measures for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Ideal Profile
You are a delivery-focused professional who thrives in a dynamic environment where technical rigor, operational reliability, and business agility intersect.
Core Competencies
The Trusted Advisor: You possess exceptional communication skills, allowing you to navigate conversations with both C-suite stakeholders, operational leaders, Project and Product leadership (Project Leaders, IT Application Managers, Product Owners), and deep tech engineering teams, and to articulate complex tradeoffs clearly.
Strategic Mindset: You don't just design for today; you shape architectures that are scalable, compliant, resilient, and operable across their full lifecycle, balancing innovation with long term sustainability.
Collaborative Leadership: You are a natural collaborator who actively works with Business, Domain, Solution, Security, Platform, and Enterprise, Information and Data architects.
Governance & Decision Ownership: You are comfortable operating within architectural governance, defending architectural positions, accepting accountability for domain‑level decisions, and ensuring adherence to standards without compromising delivery.
Technical & Professional Experience
Architecture Frameworks & Modelling: Deep knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in delivery contexts.
Modern IT Analysis & Design Practices: Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event Storming, and Agile Architecture methodologies.
Industry Expertise: Strong background in the Energy and Utilities sector, with specific exposure to Asset Management or Infrastructure environments.
Analytical Rigor: Familiarity with evaluation methods such as ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) and Gartner TIME.
Industry & Domain Expertise
Strong background in the Energy & Utilities sector, with exposure to Asset Management, Infrastructure, and operational environments.
Awareness of IT/OT integration, operational constraints, and safety‑critical systems typical of a TSO context.
Understanding of architectural implications related to security, availability, regulatory compliance, and operational risk in critical‑infrastructure environments.
Native-level proficiency in Dutch, French, or German, and professional proficiency in English. Knowledge of one or more of the other languages is considered an asset.
